That's abstract the patent. If you think that vacation meets even that then you're an idiot. And we haven't even started looking at the claims yet.
He is actually right..vacation, and unmentioned.forward file have been in there since I don't know when. Certainly long before 1997.
And example in a forward file: \js, "|/usr/ucb/vacation js"
Lets go back further.
Now I remember doing this in the late 80's where I would have a cron job read mail of an account sent to a system. It would run a shell script where if the rules matched the headers and the message body it would execute commands and conditional responses with the results of those commands. The purpose was to reset the modem pool if someone left them in a hung state.
So I guess I broke a 1998 patent in ~1989? I should be chucked into jail -- or --
Lets hope the court dismisses this with prejudice and punitive damages against the patent troll. This is prior art plain and simple. Certainly nothing innovative.
The patent system is full of trivial concepts like these and should be routinely flushed.
we've heard it a million times, and it's not really news anymore...
Oh, but it is news. While Microsoft FUDs I/T management at the cost of Linux, Apple (BSD based) pulls right up the middle and is putting a big dent in the mega-monopolistic Microsoft.
What is even better, is 4/5 kids prefer Apple. They will not be fooled so easily.
And best part, once alternatives get big enough the hardware vendors will consider dropping the Microsoft tax. I for one am sick of paying it. These statistics don't reflect people like me who bought a new machine, only run XP long enough to register the hardware then then load Linux.
If they can keep this going, the US will eventually become a nation of realtors and barristas. Could be they aren't interested in the paper we give them at all.
Too late. I haven't seen a hard drive made in the US (or Canada for that matter) in over 10 years. Not even assembled here. Even 25 years ago, the chips came from Malaysian factories.
Like TVs, soon cars...they will not be made here.
It isn't going to change unless management, unions and engineering come together and get real about business. We need to kick the Dilbert principle out of the work place. Management needs to be sharp and working for the company without the multi million dollar parasite contracts for incompetence. Unions have get real with their expectations and help dysfunctional management get productivity up along with quality and reduce costs out of the process. Or their members will be unemployed. Engineering has to get off their a$$es and automate the factories without stupid price tags and bring back ingenuity and not SOYA (Sit On Your Ass).
My guess is, yes, it occurred to the poster you were responding to, since I highly doubt that when he wrote exactly that, it was in his sleep. Did it occur to you that reading his post all the way to the end might have resulted in slightly less of your foot being inserted into your mouth?;-)
You could just buy machines with vista buisness and excercise your downgrade rights to use XP pro on them for the time being.
Putting Linux on them. They are not that computer literate and thus Windows is windows. It is after all X-Windows! All they wanted it for was surfing and email. Even setup their PGP keys.
...not funny, 1hour later when I had reinstalled XP it was much better.
It is funny. Microsoft has been around long enough that you know the old saying. Just never, and I mean never buy in pre-SP1 as your are in effect a beta-tester. It might even take 2-3 years or more before it gets as stable as XP is today. And drivers for the stuff you might have bought 6 months ago, good luck.
That is why I bought my last PC at a discount, XP with a free mail in rebate for the Vista. Licensed for when MS gets it together but not going to run it now. I wish I had bought 3. I have two relatives wanting XP and trying to drag me down the Vista hole.
I figure the first vendor of PCs to ask the user on boot, "Shall this be XP or Vista?" will enjoy a nice bump in sales. Even more if it said "Will this be XP, Vista, Solaris 86/64 or Linux?"
With enough strains on the US government (sub-prime morgages leading to market damage, the odd war here and there) it will be harder than ever to justify something like this with few immediate results.
Just think, if we traded a never ending war for NASA, how much money we would save and get space flight too?
For mortgages, no big. Let the low cost lenders take the bite. Part of what is wrong here is the government spends too much money in all the wrong places and everyone expects the government to bail out banks who lent money at a rate not reflecting risk. Let the market correct I say.
If you really want more people into science, get more science; base your economy on science and not war and corporate welfare.
No, evolution and a belief in men created in the image of god just doesn't mix.
That assumes god isn't evolving. Could be a dangerous assumption.
The big kick I get, is peoples misinterpretation of the bible and virtually every other religious document of age ever written, including all of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and others.
Religious leaders often totally side step the fact that their documents were written for people with a limited communications ability and limited understanding of the universe. Given a scholar or monk fully trained up in literacy and languages may have had a vocabulary of only 3000-4000 words! And your average person had less, and most often could not write or read proficiently.
Take the common "Seven Days of Creation". Could you explain to people thousands of years ago that time for God may not be the same as time for mankind? What if I said one year to God is 1 billion years to us and evolution was not explained because people at the time would not understand it?
"Good" religious teachings accommodate this and focus on the how to live together peacefully. Prosperity and peace most often go together. Trouble is, many religious leaders pervert their religions into fanatical control of their peoples with a total lack of vision.
This is not proof of OOXML being defective by design. It only shows that apparently MS's software isn't able to handle OOXML properly.
OK, lets have MS have their choice either way on this one.
If their office tools work well but are not using the OOXML spec, they must be using some other spec, perhaps MOOXML. In which case they are not OOXML compliant.
On the other hand, if they want to be OOXML compliant then I guess Redmond programmer can't read their own spec and thus are having problems being compliant.
Either way, and for whatever reason Microsoft is not compliant with their own spec. Shall we call this MOOXML? And while I have only read a part of the spec, it is far too "undefined" and thus ambiguous to be reliable used by itself. A standard needs to be defined enough, that 2 or more parties could take the standard document specifications, run off and program it from scratch. And have a reasonable chance that their code will inter operate on the same data sets.
Trouble is, if Microsoft cannot do that, how is anyone else?
But might I submit, Microsoft wrote office and then wrote the spec. A poster child of why you think about and write the spec before the software is a good practice.
Thankfully, I've since moved to Canada, where we get excellent service at a very reasonable price.
Who are you with?
I pay $89 (plus GST+PST) to get a static IP and extra download ceiling.
In the US I payed $49 and it was faster.
Are you a Shaw or Rogers plant? (Telus and BCE suck)
One of the big problems is a total lack of competition in the last mile to the home. Shaw, Rogers and other special interests decided a long time ago they didn't want competition.
To me, this is a somewhat self-serving drive by business executives who are tired of paying engineers salaries which are almost as much as half their own.
There is a lot of truth to that. Flood the market and the labor competition drives wages down. But China and Canada practice this. And the US imports them.
The real issue here is kids don't want math and science and the parents/teachers have slowly watered the curriculum down where students can graduate with under par science and math skills. But to some degree, these skills are needed by every human being.
How many times have you been in a store, paid $5 for a $4.95 item and the clerk has to find the right button or look at the tape to see what the change should be?
But to me, the issue is in primary public school. Kids are not going to get interested in professions without the exposure to science and math. We don't teach it well so fewer get a BS or PhD. Even a BA or trades person needs to understand math. Parents should get their kids interested early.
Either way, it looks like you have to keep in mind the architecture while designing your software. I doubt they can build a compiler that can manage the division of labor.
That has always been true to a point but the limitation is with management, software designer and programmer not the compiler.
An example, how many programmers know what pthreads and mutex are? How many have used it? We have had multi-processor systems for years and still the applications we most often buy are not designed for it. POSIX threads have been around for years and work quite well when properly used. Quite stable and portable API too.
Many Java programs are multi-threaded, yet deadlocks and stalls occur all the time because of design issues. I hate it when the GC goes nuts for 30 seconds stalling everything or for a dead lock to timeout (if it does). The designer and programmers need to understand what thread safe is, reentrant issues and the like. And design accordingly.
Now I know many/. readers know what pthreads are, try asking your average UNIX admin, or software designer in I/T that.
Yes Firefox users click on ads less...it isnt because they use firefox or ad blocker, it is because in my experience firefox users arent click happy, how many of you out there have spent hours removing viruses and spyware and malware because of a click happy IE user.
This is what drove me to Firefox in the first place. You close a popup, and it spawns 2 more...from advertisers. Not to mention the trojan, malware, spyware issues. Firefox users are more aware and not as "click happy".
I am OK if they redirect my Firefox browser, it is a quick way to tell me they are an abusive site run by idiots and Microsoft zealots. No need for me to visit.
PS. I don't remove spyware for IE users any more, I suggest a re-install and a AV product.
Feel free to throw your money away giving it to class action lawyers. I'm sure they will split their massive commission with you if they win.
Unfortunately I agree with the waste, but not the action. If enough people stood up to these electronic thugs perhaps some federal prosecutor will take notice. A class action is a good vehicle for this.
Case in point, breaking into peoples computers without authorization or a warrant is a felony. By the RIAAs own admission they hire a company to do this. This is conspiracy. Seems like a well document slam dunk case should the federal prosecutors ever get off their asses. There is no doubt, the RIAA needs to be convicted of conspiracy felony charge.
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however, in fox's defense, if you want to talk about smearing someone, i can think of no better devilish smear than hacking a fox news reporter's computer, and framing the guy as a hacker. brilliant
Yep, all hackers worth anything know you don't use your own IP to directly hack someone. First, you get a Chinese one to proxy your attack. So either this reporter is terribly stupid or has been had. Who knows, could be a Fark insider.
I confess, I am not someone who works professionally in the IT field, so I may be off the mark here, but can someone explain a situation where a computer would need to have its firewall dropped totally merely to transfer data from one system to another? I guess it just sounds a little unusual to me. Is this a systemic flaw in the way these systems were being administered or is this someone leaving out an obviously crucial step in an otherwise routine operation?
The flaw isn't in the systems. Some manager likely applied enough pressure to an inexperienced but cheap I/T person.
Technically, you don't need to drop the firewall. So what remains is politics. "CIO: We must get this going at all costs, TECH: But... CIO: No butts, just get it done ASAP or..." 7/10 CIOs are like this. They don't trust the good techs, they leave and they hire cheap subservient new cheaper techs. And mistakes are routinely made.
Don't let I/T build bridges, ships or planes, too many would die.
We gotta OUTSOURCE because it looks good on a quarteryly statement.
Yes, that is the bottom line!!
Lets hope the courts don't let the hospitals "outsource" their responsibility in this for using contractors not practicing good security. Maybe next time the outsource, security will be in their minds. Maybe not just take the lowest bid.
I think you missed the point. If Engineers are legally liable for their work that can put people at risk,.... You could have a Class-C license to code
That is BS, you would get canned right away for not doing what the boss says irregardless of what you think. I am faced with these arguments it seems every 2 weeks. I just make sure I have my CYA in good old fashioned printed emails.
The ONLY solution is to hold those in power, primarily senior management (hospitals and contractor) accountable. That means the CIO/CTO and CEO. They are the ones cutting corners, padding their exit clauses and have corporate insurances. They are the ones calling the shots and divvying out the money. They are the ones saying security does not mater and getting away with it. If we did as you suggest, another reason to ship code development offshore.
The programmer is just the sacrificial lamb, writing good code takes time, money and lots of peer reviews driving up the cost of software development. The hospital should have objectively reviewed the contractors security.
The hospitals share in this, if the service is too cheap, you know they are cutting corners to get the contract. They too hold liability. In fact, that is a good place to start. Let patients sue the hospital, as they authorized the contractor is their agent. Then let the hospital collect damages from the contractor.
While it was impressive to have a computer win against the "chess master" it accomplished this task by looking ahead as many board configurations as possible....
There in is why many who play chess don't take this match seriously.
Some flaws, first to play a grand master you need to qualify and play others. Then you enter a tournament and build up to play. This leave a trail of your style of play, your weaknesses and your strengths. A true match, your opponent would study your last games before he moved the first piece!
In this case, it was completely bypassed, placing the single player against machine at a disadvantage. Should it have been a real tournament play, I suspect the machine would have done well but lost. And there was one game I watched where he lost and he was either having a bad day or tossed it.
Well, they should. For a small number of users and no existing infrastructure, wireless is completely superior. However, we have copper lines to almost every house.
Yep, 55 million in China looks like a small number. Bet any US company would like that gravy and look at the growth rates:
Maybe Microsoft knew this was coming and want to lure Novell into an agreement so Novell would not go after Microsoft for it's involvement as SCO crumbled. Sort of like, here we will give you an agreement to make money if you don't come after us. If I was running Novell, I would take a hard look at my Microsoft agreement and it's real value.
SCO was partially owned by Microsoft at one point, is this the fate of companies who embrace MS? Seems to be a pattern here.
IBM will not be bought off so easily. Let the wolves have a good feast of SCO remains. This hasn't ended yet.
I actually do remember when SCO was a good company, when they first released ODT with Ingress it was in it's prime. Too bad they got hooked up with legal extortionists and scared off any real technical talent they might have had. SCO RIP.
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That's abstract the patent. If you think that vacation meets even that then you're an idiot. And we haven't even started looking at the claims yet.
He is actually right. .vacation, and unmentioned .forward file have been in there since I don't know when. Certainly long before 1997.
And example in a forward file:
\js, "|/usr/ucb/vacation js"
Lets go back further.
Now I remember doing this in the late 80's where I would have a cron job read mail of an account sent to a system. It would run a shell script where if the rules matched the headers and the message body it would execute commands and conditional responses with the results of those commands. The purpose was to reset the modem pool if someone left them in a hung state.
So I guess I broke a 1998 patent in ~1989? I should be chucked into jail -- or --
Lets hope the court dismisses this with prejudice and punitive damages against the patent troll. This is prior art plain and simple. Certainly nothing innovative.
The patent system is full of trivial concepts like these and should be routinely flushed.
we've heard it a million times, and it's not really news anymore...
Oh, but it is news. While Microsoft FUDs I/T management at the cost of Linux, Apple (BSD based) pulls right up the middle and is putting a big dent in the mega-monopolistic Microsoft.
What is even better, is 4/5 kids prefer Apple. They will not be fooled so easily.
And best part, once alternatives get big enough the hardware vendors will consider dropping the Microsoft tax. I for one am sick of paying it. These statistics don't reflect people like me who bought a new machine, only run XP long enough to register the hardware then then load Linux.
If it's a high percentage then that would mean that an increasing number of people are truly abandoning windows.
More specifically, dumping MS Windows for X Windows.
If they can keep this going, the US will eventually become a nation of realtors and barristas. Could be they aren't interested in the paper we give them at all.
Too late. I haven't seen a hard drive made in the US (or Canada for that matter) in over 10 years. Not even assembled here. Even 25 years ago, the chips came from Malaysian factories.
Like TVs, soon cars...they will not be made here.
It isn't going to change unless management, unions and engineering come together and get real about business. We need to kick the Dilbert principle out of the work place. Management needs to be sharp and working for the company without the multi million dollar parasite contracts for incompetence. Unions have get real with their expectations and help dysfunctional management get productivity up along with quality and reduce costs out of the process. Or their members will be unemployed. Engineering has to get off their a$$es and automate the factories without stupid price tags and bring back ingenuity and not SOYA (Sit On Your Ass).
But for most it is not going to happen.
My guess is, yes, it occurred to the poster you were responding to, since I highly doubt that when he wrote exactly that, it was in his sleep. Did it occur to you that reading his post all the way to the end might have resulted in slightly less of your foot being inserted into your mouth? ;-)
Well put.
Anyone who runs out and buys a new Windows OS on release day is a moron.
Trouble is they don't sell them with XP any more. So you get to pay twice. Sort of dumb. Linux is looking better all the time.
You could just buy machines with vista buisness and excercise your downgrade rights to use XP pro on them for the time being.
Putting Linux on them. They are not that computer literate and thus Windows is windows. It is after all X-Windows! All they wanted it for was surfing and email. Even setup their PGP keys.
It is funny. Microsoft has been around long enough that you know the old saying. Just never, and I mean never buy in pre-SP1 as your are in effect a beta-tester. It might even take 2-3 years or more before it gets as stable as XP is today. And drivers for the stuff you might have bought 6 months ago, good luck.
That is why I bought my last PC at a discount, XP with a free mail in rebate for the Vista. Licensed for when MS gets it together but not going to run it now. I wish I had bought 3. I have two relatives wanting XP and trying to drag me down the Vista hole.
I figure the first vendor of PCs to ask the user on boot, "Shall this be XP or Vista?" will enjoy a nice bump in sales. Even more if it said "Will this be XP, Vista, Solaris 86/64 or Linux?"
With enough strains on the US government (sub-prime morgages leading to market damage, the odd war here and there) it will be harder than ever to justify something like this with few immediate results.
Just think, if we traded a never ending war for NASA, how much money we would save and get space flight too?
For mortgages, no big. Let the low cost lenders take the bite. Part of what is wrong here is the government spends too much money in all the wrong places and everyone expects the government to bail out banks who lent money at a rate not reflecting risk. Let the market correct I say.
If you really want more people into science, get more science; base your economy on science and not war and corporate welfare.
No, evolution and a belief in men created in the image of god just doesn't mix.
That assumes god isn't evolving. Could be a dangerous assumption.
The big kick I get, is peoples misinterpretation of the bible and virtually every other religious document of age ever written, including all of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and others.
Religious leaders often totally side step the fact that their documents were written for people with a limited communications ability and limited understanding of the universe. Given a scholar or monk fully trained up in literacy and languages may have had a vocabulary of only 3000-4000 words! And your average person had less, and most often could not write or read proficiently.
Take the common "Seven Days of Creation". Could you explain to people thousands of years ago that time for God may not be the same as time for mankind? What if I said one year to God is 1 billion years to us and evolution was not explained because people at the time would not understand it?
"Good" religious teachings accommodate this and focus on the how to live together peacefully. Prosperity and peace most often go together. Trouble is, many religious leaders pervert their religions into fanatical control of their peoples with a total lack of vision.
This is not proof of OOXML being defective by design. It only shows that apparently MS's software isn't able to handle OOXML properly.
OK, lets have MS have their choice either way on this one.
If their office tools work well but are not using the OOXML spec, they must be using some other spec, perhaps MOOXML. In which case they are not OOXML compliant.
On the other hand, if they want to be OOXML compliant then I guess Redmond programmer can't read their own spec and thus are having problems being compliant.
Either way, and for whatever reason Microsoft is not compliant with their own spec. Shall we call this MOOXML? And while I have only read a part of the spec, it is far too "undefined" and thus ambiguous to be reliable used by itself. A standard needs to be defined enough, that 2 or more parties could take the standard document specifications, run off and program it from scratch. And have a reasonable chance that their code will inter operate on the same data sets.
Trouble is, if Microsoft cannot do that, how is anyone else?
But might I submit, Microsoft wrote office and then wrote the spec. A poster child of why you think about and write the spec before the software is a good practice.
Thankfully, I've since moved to Canada, where we get excellent service at a very reasonable price.
Who are you with?
I pay $89 (plus GST+PST) to get a static IP and extra download ceiling.
In the US I payed $49 and it was faster.
Are you a Shaw or Rogers plant? (Telus and BCE suck)
One of the big problems is a total lack of competition in the last mile to the home. Shaw, Rogers and other special interests decided a long time ago they didn't want competition.
To me, this is a somewhat self-serving drive by business executives who are tired of paying engineers salaries which are almost as much as half their own.
There is a lot of truth to that. Flood the market and the labor competition drives wages down. But China and Canada practice this. And the US imports them.
The real issue here is kids don't want math and science and the parents/teachers have slowly watered the curriculum down where students can graduate with under par science and math skills. But to some degree, these skills are needed by every human being.
How many times have you been in a store, paid $5 for a $4.95 item and the clerk has to find the right button or look at the tape to see what the change should be?
But to me, the issue is in primary public school. Kids are not going to get interested in professions without the exposure to science and math. We don't teach it well so fewer get a BS or PhD. Even a BA or trades person needs to understand math. Parents should get their kids interested early.
Either way, it looks like you have to keep in mind the architecture while designing your software. I doubt they can build a compiler that can manage the division of labor.
That has always been true to a point but the limitation is with management, software designer and programmer not the compiler.
An example, how many programmers know what pthreads and mutex are? How many have used it? We have had multi-processor systems for years and still the applications we most often buy are not designed for it. POSIX threads have been around for years and work quite well when properly used. Quite stable and portable API too.
Many Java programs are multi-threaded, yet deadlocks and stalls occur all the time because of design issues. I hate it when the GC goes nuts for 30 seconds stalling everything or for a dead lock to timeout (if it does). The designer and programmers need to understand what thread safe is, reentrant issues and the like. And design accordingly.
Now I know many /. readers know what pthreads are, try asking your average UNIX admin, or software designer in I/T that.
After being forced on to Vista by Sony - after unwittingly buying a VAIO which is stuck with Vista. I am totally fed up with it.
My two Sony's (desktop and laptop) run Unbuntu and Suse just fine. You don't have to wait.
Yes Firefox users click on ads less...it isnt because they use firefox or ad blocker, it is because in my experience firefox users arent click happy, how many of you out there have spent hours removing viruses and spyware and malware because of a click happy IE user.
This is what drove me to Firefox in the first place. You close a popup, and it spawns 2 more...from advertisers. Not to mention the trojan, malware, spyware issues. Firefox users are more aware and not as "click happy".
I am OK if they redirect my Firefox browser, it is a quick way to tell me they are an abusive site run by idiots and Microsoft zealots. No need for me to visit.
PS. I don't remove spyware for IE users any more, I suggest a re-install and a AV product.
Feel free to throw your money away giving it to class action lawyers. I'm sure they will split their massive commission with you if they win.
Unfortunately I agree with the waste, but not the action. If enough people stood up to these electronic thugs perhaps some federal prosecutor will take notice. A class action is a good vehicle for this.
Case in point, breaking into peoples computers without authorization or a warrant is a felony. By the RIAAs own admission they hire a company to do this. This is conspiracy. Seems like a well document slam dunk case should the federal prosecutors ever get off their asses. There is no doubt, the RIAA needs to be convicted of conspiracy felony charge.
however, in fox's defense, if you want to talk about smearing someone, i can think of no better devilish smear than hacking a fox news reporter's computer, and framing the guy as a hacker. brilliant
Yep, all hackers worth anything know you don't use your own IP to directly hack someone. First, you get a Chinese one to proxy your attack. So either this reporter is terribly stupid or has been had. Who knows, could be a Fark insider.
I confess, I am not someone who works professionally in the IT field, so I may be off the mark here, but can someone explain a situation where a computer would need to have its firewall dropped totally merely to transfer data from one system to another? I guess it just sounds a little unusual to me. Is this a systemic flaw in the way these systems were being administered or is this someone leaving out an obviously crucial step in an otherwise routine operation?
The flaw isn't in the systems. Some manager likely applied enough pressure to an inexperienced but cheap I/T person.
Technically, you don't need to drop the firewall. So what remains is politics. "CIO: We must get this going at all costs, TECH: But... CIO: No butts, just get it done ASAP or..." 7/10 CIOs are like this. They don't trust the good techs, they leave and they hire cheap subservient new cheaper techs. And mistakes are routinely made.
Don't let I/T build bridges, ships or planes, too many would die.
We gotta OUTSOURCE because it looks good on a quarteryly statement.
Yes, that is the bottom line!!
Lets hope the courts don't let the hospitals "outsource" their responsibility in this for using contractors not practicing good security. Maybe next time the outsource, security will be in their minds. Maybe not just take the lowest bid.
I think you missed the point. If Engineers are legally liable for their work that can put people at risk, ....
You could have a Class-C license to code
That is BS, you would get canned right away for not doing what the boss says irregardless of what you think. I am faced with these arguments it seems every 2 weeks. I just make sure I have my CYA in good old fashioned printed emails.
The ONLY solution is to hold those in power, primarily senior management (hospitals and contractor) accountable. That means the CIO/CTO and CEO. They are the ones cutting corners, padding their exit clauses and have corporate insurances. They are the ones calling the shots and divvying out the money. They are the ones saying security does not mater and getting away with it. If we did as you suggest, another reason to ship code development offshore.
The programmer is just the sacrificial lamb, writing good code takes time, money and lots of peer reviews driving up the cost of software development. The hospital should have objectively reviewed the contractors security.
The hospitals share in this, if the service is too cheap, you know they are cutting corners to get the contract. They too hold liability. In fact, that is a good place to start. Let patients sue the hospital, as they authorized the contractor is their agent. Then let the hospital collect damages from the contractor.
While it was impressive to have a computer win against the "chess master" it accomplished this task by looking ahead as many board configurations as possible....
There in is why many who play chess don't take this match seriously.
Some flaws, first to play a grand master you need to qualify and play others. Then you enter a tournament and build up to play. This leave a trail of your style of play, your weaknesses and your strengths. A true match, your opponent would study your last games before he moved the first piece!
In this case, it was completely bypassed, placing the single player against machine at a disadvantage. Should it have been a real tournament play, I suspect the machine would have done well but lost. And there was one game I watched where he lost and he was either having a bad day or tossed it.
Well, they should. For a small number of users and no existing infrastructure, wireless is completely superior. However, we have copper lines to almost every house.
Yep, 55 million in China looks like a small number. Bet any US company would like that gravy and look at the growth rates:
http://resources.alibaba.com/article/157564/Numb er_of_internet_users_in_China_to_overtake_U_S_.htm
And I would bet the farm they pay a lot less. Canada has the same problem. Too much monopoly and political racketeering.
I don't argue, copper to the home should be better from a purely technical point, but that assumes competition exists.
Maybe Microsoft knew this was coming and want to lure Novell into an agreement so Novell would not go after Microsoft for it's involvement as SCO crumbled. Sort of like, here we will give you an agreement to make money if you don't come after us. If I was running Novell, I would take a hard look at my Microsoft agreement and it's real value.
SCO was partially owned by Microsoft at one point, is this the fate of companies who embrace MS? Seems to be a pattern here.
IBM will not be bought off so easily. Let the wolves have a good feast of SCO remains. This hasn't ended yet.
I actually do remember when SCO was a good company, when they first released ODT with Ingress it was in it's prime. Too bad they got hooked up with legal extortionists and scared off any real technical talent they might have had. SCO RIP.
Oh, I am sure Darl has an offshore account, kept quiet and secret. He will play the tin cup for a couple of years then quietly slip away into luxury.